Build-a-lot 4: Power Source HD

Running low on juice

by Jon Mundy 6/12/2012

"Here's hoping Build-a-lot 4 can get things rolling again."

Those were the closing words of my Build-a-lot 3 review. I wrote them less than a month ago.

Of course, this is another conversion of a relatively old PC game, so it's not like the developer has churned two games out in quick succession.

Nonetheless, two Build-a-lots in close succession only serves to drive home how little the core formula has changed.

Property management

The idea, as ever, is to tackle a series of scenarios in which you must build, upgrade, or otherwise improve upon the property of a small community. ...

If the last Build-a-lot 3 was feeling a little tired, then Build-a-lot 4 - arriving only a month later - risks popping its own property bubble

RATINGS
Audio/visual: 6
Gameplay: 7
Value: 6
Innovation: 3
Overall: 6